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{{short description|Cargo ship of the United States Navy}}
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1945}}
|Ship name=*''Kingsport Victory''
|Ship namesake=Kingsport, Tennessee{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}
|Ship ordered=as type (VC2-S-AP2) hull, MCV hull 20
|Ship builder=California Shipbuilding Corporation, Los Angeles, California
|Ship laid down=4 April 1944, as SS ''Kingsport Victory''
|Ship launched=29 May 1944
|Ship sponsor=Mrs. George O'Brien
|Ship completed=12 July 1944
|Ship acquired=12 July 1944
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|Ship in service=*WSA: 12 July 1944
*Army: 8 July 1948
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|Ship renamed=14 November 1961, ''Kingsport''
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|Ship identification=*Hull symbol:T-AK-239
|Ship honors=1 x battle star for World War II service
|Ship fate= Transferred to US Navy 1961
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1984}}
|Ship name=''Kingsport''
|Ship namesake=Kingsport, Tennessee
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|Ship in service= Navy: 1 March 1950
|Ship out of service=31 January 1984
|Ship renamed=14 November 1961, ''Kingsport''
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|Ship refit=Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA. from 1 June 1962 to 1 December 1962
|Ship struck=31 January 1984
|Ship identification=*Hull symbol: T-AG-164
*{{IMO Number|8450641}}
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|Ship fate=Withdrawn from the reserve fleet on 21 January 1992 for scrapping in India
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|Ship class=as T-AK-239: {{sclass|Greenville Victory|cargo ship}}
|Ship type=MARAD VC2-S-AP3
|Ship tonnage={{GRT|7653}}{{sfn|MARAD Vessel Status Card: ''Kingsport'' (AG-164)}}
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|Ship armament=*1 × 5 inch (127&nbsp;mm)/38 caliber gun (''Kingsport Victory'' only)
*1 × 3 inch (76&nbsp;mm)/50 caliber gun (''Kingsport Victory'' only)
*8 × 20 mm Oerlikon (''Kingsport Victory'' only)
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'''USNS ''Kingsport'' (T-AG-164)''' was built as '''SS ''Kingsport Victory''''', a United States Maritime Commission VC2-S-AP3 ([[Engineering:Victory ship|Victory]]) type cargo ship. During the closing days of [[Social:World War II|World War II]] the ship was operated by the American Hawaiian Steamship Company under an agreement with the War Shipping Administration. After a period of layup the ship was operated as '''USAT ''Kingsport Victory''''' by the Army under bareboat charter effective 8 July 1948. When Army transports were transferred to the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service the ship continued as '''USNS ''Kingsport Victory'' (T-AK-239)''', a cargo transport . On 14 November 1961, after conversion into the first satellite communication ship, the ship was renamed ''Kingsport'', reclassified as a general auxiliary, and operated as '''USNS ''Kingsport'' (T-AG-164)'''.

The ship was sent to [[Place:Lagos|Lagos]], Nigeria as the control station for [[Engineering:Syncom 2|Syncom 2]] becoming the site of the first two way call by satellite by heads of state. The call was between Nigerian Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa aboard the ''Kingsport'' and President [[Biography:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] on 23 August 1963. In 1967 the ship underwent conversion and became a bathymetric and acoustic survey ship for the installation and maintenance of the then classified [[Earth:SOSUS|Sound Surveillance System]] (SOSUS) under the unclassified name of Project Caesar,

==Construction==
''Kingsport Victory'', a United States Maritime Commission VC2-S-AP3 (Victory) type cargo ship, was laid down 4 April 1944 with launch on 29 May and completion on 12 July 1944 with delivery to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on the same day at Los Angeles. She was built under the Emergency Shipbuilding program under cognizance of the U.S. Maritime Commission. {{sfn|MARAD Vessel Status Card: ''Kingsport Victory''}}{{sfn|Colton: California Shipbuilding, Los Angeles CA}} Basic dimensions, not counting modifications for satellite communications, were length {{convert|436|ft|6|in|m|1}} (LBP), {{convert|62|ft|m|1}} beam and {{GRT|7653}}.{{sfn|MARAD Vessel Status Card: ''Kingsport'' (AG-164)}}

== World War II and Army service==
''Kingsport Victory'' was immediately placed in operation by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, under a War Shipping Administration general agency agreement, supplying troops in the Pacific.  She made trips between California and Pearl Harbor.  On 17 October 1944 she steamed from California, arriving at Milne Bay in New Guinea on 2 November.  She carried cargo to US troops and ships at Eniwetok, Iwo Jima, Guam, Ulithi atoll and Okinawa. ''Kingsport Victory'' was active delivering support for the Battle of Iwo Jima from 19 February to 26 March 1945. In battle she had to use her deck guns to defend against air attacks. ''Kingsport Victory'' received one Battle star for her service.  After the war, in December 1945 she steamed from Okinawa to [[Place:Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], then Calcutta; through the Suez Canal she arrived at {{wipe|New York City}} on 27 February 1946. During 1946 she moved cargo from the US east and west coasts.<ref>[http://marinesinforestgreen.blogspot.com/2012/10/list-of-ships-at-battle-of-iwo-jima.html Marines, List of Ships At The Battle of Iwo Jima]</ref><ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/a/amphibious-operations-capture-iwo-jima.html US Navy History, Amphibious Operations Capture of Iwo Jima]</ref><ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/k/kingsport-victory.html Navy History ''Kingsport Victory'']</ref>

After the war, on 29 September 1947, she was taken out of service and placed in the reserve fleet at Lee Hall, Virginia.{{sfn|MARAD Vessel Status Card: ''Kingsport Victory''}} On 8 April 1948 the ship was taken out of reserve and bareboat chartered to the War Department for operation as the USAT ''''Kingsport Victory'' a US Army Transport. During this time the ship was involved in a legal case, ''Johansen, v. United States'', involving rights of an Army civil service employee crew member in personal injury cases.{{sfn|United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit}} On 1 March 1950 she was removed from US Army Transport and transferred the US Navy.<ref>[http://www.navalcovermuseum.org/restored/KINGSPORT_T-AG_164.html navalcovermuseum, ''Kingsport Victory'']</ref>

==Navy MSTS service==
''Kingsport Victory'' was among large Army ships transferred to the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) with ''Kingsport Victory'' being transferred effective 1 March 1950.{{sfn|MARAD Vessel Status Card: ''Kingsport Victory''}} The ship carried military cargo for the next eleven years as USNS ''Kingsport Victory'' (T-AK-239). ''Kingsport Victory'' is seen in an Air Force documentary film on the construction of the Dew Line loading supplies at Norfolk, Virginia and unloading at Halifax, Nova Scotia.{{sfn|National Archives: Dew Line: Documentary synopsis}}

Assigned to duty supporting the U.S. Army Satellite Communications Agency USNS ''Kingsport'' was further modified and, in August 1963 while in [[Place:Lagos|Lagos]] harbor, transmitted the first satellite voice call between heads of state when [[Biography:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] and Nigerian Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa aboard ''Kingsport'' spoke in a two-way call. A demonstration of transmission of oceanographic data was made between a research vessel off Africa via the ship and satellite to Washington. The first air to ship satellite communication took place when Navy aircraft off Virginia established voice communication with ''Kingsport'' which was off Morocco. Further satellite communications work took place in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. ''Kingsport'' then supported [[Astronomy:Project Gemini|Project Gemini]] into March 1966. After conversion from satellite configuration, particularly removal of the large and very visible dome, ''Kingsport'' was engaged in acoustic work for the Navy supporting undersea surveillance programs.

===Satellite communications ship ''Kingsport''===
[[File:USNS Kingsport Satellite Communications Ship.jpg|250px|thumb|right|USNS ''Kingsport'' (T-AG 164) under way, 29 January 1963. The photo shows the 53-foot white plastic dome that protects the 30-foot stabilized parabolic antenna.]]

On 24 September 1961, she was delivered to the {{wipe|Portland, Oregon}} facilities of Willamette Iron & Steel Company where she underwent conversion to become the first satellite communications ship.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}{{sfn|U.S. Fleet Forces Command: August 23}}  On 14 November 1961 she was renamed ''Kingsport'' and reclassified AG-164.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}

Designed for use by the United States Army Satellite Communications Agency in the defense satellite communications programs, Project ADVENT, USNS ''Kingsport'' underwent extensive alteration during conversion. A special [[Physics:High frequency|high frequency]] radio station was installed for ship-to-shore communications. She received advanced tracking and telemetry equipment and anti-roll stabilization tanks. In addition, a 30-foot, gyro-stabilized, computer-oriented, triaxial, [[Astronomy:Parabolic antenna|parabolic antenna]] was installed on her afterdeck. Housed in a 53-foot, plastic, air-pressurized [[Engineering:Radome|radome]], this antenna permitted precision tracking of a high altitude satellite at any angle above the horizon.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}

[[File:USNS Kingsport SYNCOM Call Kennedy-Balewa July 1963.png|250px|thumb|right|Prime Minister Balewa (2nd from right) talks to the late President John F. Kennedy on the first live broadcast via the SYNCOM satellite from USNS ''Kingsport'' in Lagos, Nigeria.]]
''Kingsport'' sailed to [[Place:Lagos|Lagos]], Nigeria after [[Engineering:Syncom 2|Syncom 2]] had been successfully launched on 26 July 1963 to serve as the terminal control station during testing and evaluation of the satellite.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}} On 23 August 1963, President [[Biography:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] in Washington, D.C., telephoned Nigerian Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa aboard the ''Kingsport'' docked in Lagos Harbor via [[Engineering:Syncom 2|Syncom 2]], the first geosynchronous communication satellite. It was the first live two-way call between heads of state by satellite.{{sfn|U.S. Fleet Forces Command: August 23}}{{sfn|Uhlig, Sellmaier & Schmidhuber}} [[Astronomy:Syncom|Syncom 2]] and [[Astronomy:Communications satellite|Relay 1]] linked Nigeria, Brazil and the United States with ''Kingsport'' transmitting through Syncom 2 to New Jersey and New Jersey via Relay 1 to Rio de Janeiro.{{sfn|Williamson|p=185}} During this period Gulf of Guinea oceanographic data, composed of depths temperature and salinity from a {{convert|1000|m|ft}} station, were transmitted from the {{RV|Geronimo}} to the National Oceanographic Data Center via ''Kingsport'' and Syncom 2.{{sfn|ICO Report #6lP-64}}

''Kingsport'' departed Lagos 23 September and during transit off Morocco on 2 October demonstrated the first satellite communications between an aircraft in flight when a Navy aircraft off the Virginia coast made voice contact with the ship via satellite.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}{{sfn|Applied Research Laboratory|p=49}} The ship reached Rota, Spain on 3 October, staying until 6 October, then sailed supporting communication tests in the Mediterranean from 7 to 25 October.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}} Tests of voice and teletype links between the United States and ships of the 6th Fleet successful with the ship visiting Leghorn, Italy and [[Place:Beirut|Beirut]], Lebanon during the voyage.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}} After arriving in Rota 26 October and completing additional experiments she sailed for Norfolk 9 November and arrived 21 November.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}

''Kingsport'' departed for the Pacific 17 February 1964 via Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal stopping at San Diego 13 March and reaching Pearl Harbor on 25 March 1964. For the next ten months the ship operated between  Pearl Harbor and Guam supporting further communication experiments including those related to the evaluation of SYNCOM 3 after its launching 19 August 1964. Further experiments extended throughout the Western Pacific and into the Indian Ocean until July 1965.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}

She then provided support for NASA's Gemini manned space shots serving as on station communications ship between Okinawa and the Philippines for [[Astronomy:Gemini 5|Gemini 5]] from 21 to 29 August. She supported three more Gemini flights between 4 December and 16 March 1966 before returning to the West Coast in April. She remained at San Francisco from 18 April to 27 October in a ready reserve status. During November she steamed to the East Coast, and in early 1967 was at New York undergoing repairs and alterations.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: ''Kingsport Victory''}}

===Survey ship===
After completion of her communications support role the USNS ''Kingsport'' became a bathymetric and acoustic survey ship supporting Project Caesar, the installation and maintenance of the [[Earth:SOSUS|Sound Surveillance System]] (SOSUS), and undersea surveillance development.{{sfn|Hanish, Rollins & Cybulski}}{{sfn|Fenner & Cronin|p=3}}{{sfn|Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) History}} The ship was part of the "Caeasr fleet" under the technical control of the project's Program Manager, then Naval Electronics Systems Command (NAVELEX PME-124).{{sfn|Committee on Armed Services (1978)|p=4245}} Among the now published reports,  declassified in 2006, of the ship's work is a description of the Indian Ocean exercise code named BEARING STAKE that took place from January to April 1977.{{sfn|Fenner & Cronin|p=Foreword}}

==Disposal==
Kingsport was placed out of service on 31 Jan 1984, transferred to the Maritime Administration for layup on 29 August 1984 then transferred back to the Military Sealift Command for scientific research on 1 March 1990.{{sfn|NavSource}} The ship was withdrawn from the reserve fleet on 21 January 1992 for scrapping in India.{{sfn|MARAD Vessel Status Card: ''Kingsport'' (AG-164)}}

==Honors==
Crew of Naval Armed Guard on the SS ''Kingsport Victory''' earned "Battle Stars" in World War II for war action during the assault occupation of Assault occupation of Iwo Jima from 13 March 1945 to 16 March 1945.<ref>[http://archive-org.com/org/u/usmm.org/2013-04-03_1808202_35/World_War_II_Posters_Train_or_return_to_sea/ usmm.org, "Battle Stars" in World War II.]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://patriot.net/~eastlnd2/Kingsport.htm Personal account of USNS ''Kingsport'']
*[http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~slowbell/trough10.htm#32 The Kingsport] (Photo & patch)
*[http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1194759&sort_comments=2 USNS Kingsport (Falmouth, England) after removal of dome and in gray MSTS livery.]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=qJpajIEO9hYC&pg=RA1-PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false Bouncing Voice Off Satellite Part of Ship's Daily Grind]

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